Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Midori Eckenstein Msi 2016 Director $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Doug Racine 2016 Director $0 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Joseph Pyle 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Elisa Cobb 2015 Co-Secretary $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Tim Buskey 2015 Vice President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Jim May Resigned Fy17 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Charles Burdick 2015 President $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Marna Bisaccia 2015 Member $0 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Jennifer Thayer Resigned Fy17 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Mark Kaplan 2016 Treasurer $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Alyson Blodgett 2015 Secretary $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Sarah Hofmann Resigned Fy17 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Eryn Ryan 2015 President $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Honor Hubbard 2015 Vice President $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Misa Blackmer Resigned Fy17 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Cory Herrington 2016 Vice President $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Sarah Lewis 2016 2016 Vp Finance $0 $0 PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY
Christine Falango 2015 Treasurer $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Gretchen Scranton 2015 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
David Mickenberg Resigned Fy17 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Alison Mason 2015 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC
Jane Catton Rn Bscn Mha Msol 2016 Secretary $0 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
John Holme Resigned Fy17 2016 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Doug Buggee 2016 President $0 $0 NORTHSHIRE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
Samantha Fischer 2015 Director $0 $0 THE LITTLE SCHOOL INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.